Last time, I was looking at Bananaman strips from the late 90s adapting episodes of the 80s TV series, which were drawn by John Geering -- who had created the strip and drawn the vast majority of it up to that point, but had no known involvement in the series. It would be worth going back and reading that piece if you haven't already, as that way this one will make sense.| Ludicrously Niche
In 1983, Bananaman -- at the time appearing in D. C. Thomson's weekly humour anthology comic Nutty -- made his onscreen debut in a series of animated five-minute shorts on Children's BBC. As explained in this interview with Steve Bright, who co-created the character with artist John Geering and wrote many of the scripts for the comic strip over the years, the animation executives had originally thought they'd make a series about a more iconic character such as Dennis the Menace or Desperate D...| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
Goodness Gracious Me was a groundbreaking sketch show that popularised British-Asian comedy and helped make household names of people like Sanjeev Bhaskar.| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
This is the April Fool-themed Desperate Dan story which took up the cover and first two inside pages of issue #2837 of the Dandy, dated April 6th, 1996. There are two very strange things about it, and one thing which turned out to be less strange than I first thought.| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
If you have enjoyed my recent writings on Cuddles and Dimples, and trying to pinpoint the exact moment at which the two tyrannical toddlers were retconned from being next-door neighbours to twin brothers, I am sure you will find this, by the excellent regular commentator Zoomy, of interest: a look at a Dandy Comic Library starring a solo Cuddles which was published after the retcon happened but had clearly been written before then, and has a bit of difficulty writing around the absence of Di...| Ludicrously Niche
Precisely eleven days ago, I took a look at one of the shortest-serving British comics on record, Hoot. Of particular interest was Hoot's cover star, the tyrannical toddler Cuddles; when Hoot was merged into the Dandy after just 53 issues, Cuddles was merged with a very similar strip about a tyrannical toddler called Dimples which was already running in the Dandy.| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com